Planning Your Garden Rule #1 when planting any outdoor garden, flower bed, or fruit tree is to know your environment. That actually breaks down into a lot of components. So, here is a list of what you need to know so you can plan out your needs. 1st - Agricultural Zone This is a big fancy scary word, but you need to know which one you are. Zones are categorized 1-11 based on your lowest yearly temperature. Some plants need cold to seed, some die at the first sign of a frost. If you are planting any perennial vegetation(anything you want to survive the winter and come back next year) you need to know your zone and the growing zone of the plant you have chosen. My house is right on the edge of Zones 5 and 6 (no really, the house across the street is in a different zone). Since I am so close to a zone 5 I tend to just use that as my zone because the lower your number the colder it gets. Most of Utah hangs around a zone 5 so that is a pretty safe b...
The Gardening Nerd
This is a collection of my experience and gardening know-how. It's limited and I am definitely not a professional, but I'm learning and I thought you might want to learn from my mistakes too!